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EU-Canada trade pact CETA a step closer

The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee backs the CETA trade accord between the EU and Canada, an important step toward ratification. The EPP Group’s MEP Artis Pabriks, who wrote the report, says businesses large and small will boost trade by 20 percent when CETA slashes export tariffs by half a billion Euros. CETA is now set for a final Parliamentary vote in February.

Event of the Week

Two days of events this week are aimed at raising awareness and fighting racism and anti-Semitism in sport. MEPs and members of the sports world are seeking to call attention to increasing cases of racist incidents and to fight the practice at the upcoming World Cup in Russia.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has approved draft legislation to step up EU disaster relief. Authored by the EPP Group’s Elisabetta Giardini, it would update a voluntary system with better resources on demand for disasters including those that result from extreme...

Europe’s farmers need more support and streamlined bureaucracy to stay competitive by reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, says a Report by EPP Group MEP Herbert Dorfmann, approved on Wednesday by the Agricultural Committee and headed for a plenary vote at the end of the month...

The European Parliament’s Employment Committee has approved a revision of an EU law on posted workers.
The law will mean better working conditions for posted workers, the same rules on remuneration as workers in the host EU country, fairer competition between companies and better access to...

MEPs are calling for a crackdown on producers of everything from food to cosmetics to baby products that are selling varying quality at different prices across the EU. At a European Parliament conference, the EPP Group’s Ivan Štefanec says a report he co-authored calls on the EU to set...

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy should maintain the same budget after Brexit, says the EPP Group’s author of a European Parliament Report on the CAP’s budget from 2021. Herbert Dorfmann says the funding is needed to address new challenges and concerns of farmers and consumers...

The EU, together with the private sector, should help the developing world shift to a digital economy, said participants at a European Parliament hearing. Bogdan Wenta, the EPP Group’s Spokesman in the Development Committee, said the growing use of mobile phones makes Africa and Latin America...

At an event in the European Parliament, MEPs and analysts urged the EU to remain vigilant against Russian meddling in Europe’s affairs following Putin’s re-election and the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK. The EPP Group’s Sandra Kalniete warned of more...

A new EU legislation which entered into force on April 1st, 2018, allows all European citizens to access their online music, film and other content when they travel to any member state of the Union.
The legislation, an exception to geoblocking for temporary stays abroad inside the EU, goes...

With road traffic fatalities having fallen more than 50% since 2001, the EPP Group sought and succeeded in having even greater reductions with new technology. The measures include the eCall which automatically alerts authorities to a serious accident, and a smart digital tachograph which calculates...